Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu MP letter to the Electoral Commission: “Citizens’ Demand for a Referendum on Entrenching Article 102(b) of the Constitution and Restoration of Term Limits in the Constitution of Uganda” (16.09.2017)

Kenya: Statement by the Judicial Service Commission on attacks on the Judiciary (19.09.2017)

IEBC Internal Memo from Chairman Chebukati to CEO Chiloba: “Re: SC PET NO 1 of 2017, Raila Odinga & Another VS IEBC & 2 Others” (18.09.2017)

Inter-Religious Council of Uganda – “Appeal to Approach the Age Limit Debate with Nationalistic and Non-Partisan Lenses and Necessary Consultations: For God and Our Country” (18.09.2017)

NASA: Remarks by Rt. Raila Odinga at Meeting with Grassroots Leaders (18.09.2017)

Opinion: Exposing the IEBC Presidential Election shows that the only hope is, to reform it!

For every inch of exposing the culprits behind the rigging on the 8th August Presidential Election in Kenya, will leave more people scorn and more people angered. As ruling regime and their partners never expected this to unfold. That incumbent party Jubilee and their allies never anticipated that someone would catch a whiff and if they did, they would just nod their head and sigh. Then move on, like nothing happen and nothing was stolen that day.

Clearly, this has backfired and for each going since Presidential Petition was delivered to the Supreme Court. For each and every single day, there been released new intelligence, new insights into the conducts of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and also their connected companies. This being Safran or Morpho with their KIEMS, the Cambridge Analytica servers and the duplicated accounts of IEBC Officials. There are enough crimes and fraudulent behavior to write a book. However, that would be to insulting, as the term is still going-on for Kenyatta, the supposed winner of this rigged election.

Nevertheless, you can see that something is not on it is up and up. When Jubilee, the incumbent are attacking the Supreme Court and trying to fix-it. While the audits, the rulings and all documentations blaming the IEBC and their partners. Certainly, this sort of act is not for the crowds, but for disbelief, that someone would dare to step-up and shut the door in the face of the incumbent. That is initially what happen and that was not expected.

Therefore, as the days goes by, the duplicated accounts, the fixing of the biometric scanner, the KIEMS, the results manipulations and the IEBC Portal filled with Electoral Fraud. Is all in the daylight. As the IEBC-leadership and Secretariat are trying to pass and push for second round K.O., even as the National Super Alliance (NASA) and their candidate Raila Odinga are showing the world their digressions.

It is not like there is nothing there, there are too much at this point to put a finger on. Like you should blow-up the building at Anniversary Tower in Nairobi. Leave all the documentations and tenders behind. Start a fresh, hire new people and get new Electoral Codes, since the ones that are there is ready for the taking. The IEBC needs something else than what it has today. Today, it is a relic, a fine and dandy machine for not respecting ballot, bur reconfigure the ballots to fit a paradigm. The IEBC today are for the rulers to stay ruling, not to listen to the voters and validate their votes. To say otherwise is to either be blind and lose your marbles.

The IEBC does not only reform, it needs to be shaken to its core. The foundation is built on a lie and it is in the open. As the wounds and the battles of August is still fought in paragraphs, tweets and in conversation. The distrust and disbelief of the magnitude of fraud, should shock anyone, the bribes, the tricks and manipulation in favor of one man and his party. Therefore, that man is blaming the party that took away the shackles on the IEBC and made them have another election.

Kenyatta, should instead of focusing on Supreme Court, he should if he cared about the voters and their integrity, fix IEBC and their outstanding issues. Which is bigger than a mountain and more pieces of misbehavior than an ordinary puzzle. It is not enough to fire fellow leaders and expect it be golden. If it was so, the leadership change after Chickengate, would have made this election gone smooth. However, apparently for all of us. It did not!

I am just waiting for an E-Mail or a Correspondence between IEBC and Jubilee, where they agreed upon how the result would look like and about what time to announce it. Since, it was so well-planned and behaved, the system of rigging, the manipulation of electronic results and the transmission of them. It was so obviously set-up to make sure the incumbent would win.

Though today, we see and yesterday we saw, what they did and how they did it. The aftermath and the end-game has been altered. It angers Kenyatta who wants to smash SCOK, but should use his mind and fix IEBC. Not that it is in his interest. But if he cared. He should, he want justice, he should and if he cares about the voters. He should, but do not count it. Peace.

NASA Statement: “Why Should Kenyans Trust IEBC with Another Election?” (17.09.2017)

ICJ Kenya Statement on the Petition for the Removal of the Honourable the Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya to the Judicial Service Commission (16.09.2017)

Opinion: Expect the Age-Limit bill to be PASSED, because President Museveni needs it!

During an interview, Margaret A. Novicki of Africa Report asked Museveni “What advice would you give to your African colleagues who are resisting movement towards democracy?” (…) “Museveni responded that “I have no sympathy for those who resist democracy. Democracy should not be resisted. Power belongs to the people, not to an individual. Why should you want power for yourself? Who are you? You are a servant of the people. If the people don’t want you, then you go and do other things and they elect whom they want. I have no sympathy for them”(Africa Report July/August 1993).

For everyday that passes, the closer we get to see the Constitutional Amendment of the Article 102 (b) that ushers in the life presidency of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. To say something else, is a lie and ignorance on the behalf of the republic. The National Resistance Movement have been allowed to demonstrate and have discussions. While the ones trying to have campaigns and rallies has been silenced or detained. The latest victim is the Democratic Party EALA MP Mukasa Mbidde, who was supposed to be a “Good DP”, but still ended behind bars in Fort Portal today.

Well, it would be lie if this isn’t important, as the NRM Youth League, as NRM MP’s are supporting the motion and bill. That they are calling it unjust to have an age-limit on the Presidency, since it affects the whole age-bracket and could possible stop pensioners from running. Which is most likely, since the most people that age use time to give the youth advice, show them how to run a household and tells stories of the past generations. Not like they are running for being councilor’s or MP’s. Unless, they have been cronies who never let go, there are a few of them subjects within the cabinet and in parliament, but very considering the amount of people over 75 in Uganda.

That the bill will come and the pay-day for the Members of Parliament will also come as an affect to the matter. Since NRM and President Museveni is well-known to give a bonus suit, car or even foreign trips to his loyal cronies. This will happen again. That the MP’s are trading away their loyalty and the republic doesn’t matter. They become wealthy by a single vote and get a small fortunes pocket within no-time. They can pay-off debt and even get an extra maid.

So when even talks of Private Initiatives to pay the MP’s not to vote for the abolishment. It says a lot of the state of affairs. Since they already has enough perks, high salaries, no tax on it and all the remuneration together with allowances as well. The MP’s as long as they are working inside the Parliament should earn more than enough. Alas, they want some more to do the President a favor, giving him the state for life. Delivering it on a silver platter.

If the MP’s and the NRM does this, they are giving way for the President so he can possible be President until his been there for 40 years. No he is on his 31 year. He has farms and businesses, his presidency is involved in any part of government and there isn’t anything soon that is enacted or sanctioned without his handshake. Therefore, the bill to give him life presidency, will be helped by him and as he wanted it to be. Since this was never made for betterment of the state, but for one individual, that being President Museveni.

This sounds far-fetched from the President that was praised by Bill Clinton in the 1990s, the one who spoke as new leader. He has long killed that persona and become the one he wanted get rid-off on the continent. The reasoning for getting rid of Mobutu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is now himself in Uganda. With mansions and wealth, while the state is stuttering, schools falling apart, lacking medicines and government services in general. So if looking at the state and service delivery, the President doesn’t care. That ship has sailed at least a decade ago, he is just there to be in power and to own the republic. Not to develop or making sure the people are in a safe place. Since his daughters are advised to give birth abroad, not at Mulago. This proves the knowledge of the failing state and the President knows this, because he has run it to make wealth for himself and family. Not creating a welfare state.

The Age Limit, is the total proof of how NRM and Museveni are working for one perspective. For his wealth and rich. The sole candidate and his will. Nothing else. Everything else is well-spent lies and deceptions. If he cared the school buildings in up-country wouldn’t rot and lack windows. The roads wouldn’t be so bad that only boda-boda can pass after the rain. There to many lacking institutions. Because if the institutions and procedures actually worked, they wouldn’t need Museveni and his sanctions. They wouldn’t need his stamp and favors, he has made sure he is the government and the government is him. Therefore, the NRM has to give it another breather, even if it is no-good.

So expect the Age-Limit bill to be enacted and passed as a law. It will happen because President Museveni needs it. Not because Uganda or the republic needs it. Peace.

Ugandans Must Reject All Retrogressive Amendments to Our Constitution – A Statement by Leaders of Civil Society to Fellow Ugandans (16.09.2017)